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Integrated digital marketing success for VisitBritain Shop

SEO and PPC case study

The brief

 

VisitBritain Shop is the official shop of the British Tourist Authority, selling quintessentially British products, from travel and transport passes to theatre and attraction tickets.

Search Laboratory stood out due to its in-house mother-tongue linguists who would add cultural sensitivity to the client’s search marketing campaigns.

55%

increase in paid search profit

40%

increase in organic search revenue

115%

increase in ROI from organic search

The solution

SEO

 

  • After auditing the campaign, the team worked on implementing hreflang markup on the site, to ensure users were being served the correct language page.
  • Concentrated on boosting authority of the site as resellers were ranking well for their products.
  • Created useful content guides for people travelling to the UK and used this content across multiple languages giving a consistent strategy internationally across the organic search campaign.
    • Airport transfer guide
    • Harry Potter location guides
    • How to bring your dog to the UK.

PPC

 

  • Utilised Search Laboratory’s mother-tongue linguists to get a better understanding of country-specific campaigns.
  • Built keyword lists using cultural understanding rather than translation.
  • Restructured campaigns to create smaller groups with more relevant adtext.
  • Using BidLab across the accounts we manage now to maximise revenue profitably.
  • Focus on expansion and testing of new products/markets.

The results

SEO

 

VisitBritain Shop’s French, German and Italian organic search campaigns’ revenue has grown by 40% compared to the previous year and a return on investment of 115% was achieved.

PPC

 

After over three years of working with Search Laboratory, VisitBritain Shop’s PPC campaign is still showing healthy improvements such as 53% increase in sales and revenue (YoY) and 55% increase in profit.

Keen to learn more about how SEO and PPC can work together?This blog by our US Head of Paid Media explains all

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